Massive Planet Gone Rogue Discovered

A massive rogue planet has been discovered in the Beta Pictoris moving group . The planet, called PSO J318.5338-22.8603 (Sorry, I didn’t name it), is over eight times as massive as Jupiter. Because it’s one of the few directly-imaged exoplanets we know of, and is accessible for study by spectroscopy, this massive planet will be extremely important when piecing together the details of planetary formation and evolution.Most planets outside our solar system are not directly observable